Light aircraft crash lands in industrial estate | SWNS

Police have sealed off roads after a light aircraft crashed into an industrial estate.

The aircraft, believed to be an Evektor SportStar built in 2022, is said to have crashed shortly after 9am in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, today (1).

Emergency services sealed off the land around the Veolia Municipal depot.

According to Flightradar the last signal received from the aircraft was at 8.03am this morning at an altitude of 600ft.

A spokesperson for Derbyshire Police said: "We are currently dealing with a light aircraft that came down on land off Sheepbridge Lane, Chesterfield earlier this morning.

"The incident happened just after 9am today.

"Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service and East Midlands Ambulance Service are also at the scene.

"Roads in the immediate area are closed and will remain shut for some time while the investigation into the circumstances continues."

A spokesperson for Derbyshire Fire and Rescue said: "Emergency Services are currently dealing with a light aircraft that has come down on Sheepbridge Lane, Chesterfield.

"Fire control operators received a call at 09.05 hours today (Sunday 1 September) and mobilised fire crews from Chesterfield, Clay Cross and Staveley Fire Stations to the scene.

"Colleagues from Derbyshire police and East Midlands Ambulance Service are also in attendance.

"People are asked to avoid the area while emergency services deal with the incident."

[miketaverner]

The only light aircraft here is the drone filming an industrial estate

[nomate]

Lovely, thanks for showing us all almost nothing.

[rogerc]

Someone died there today. Stuff your ghoulish drone. Have some respect.

[bhm]

99% of the comments are saying this is clickbait/showing nothing/ waste of time etc…do you folks not see the burnt out wreckage poking out from underneath the 2 totally out of place gazebos in the middle of a load of red shipping containers??? What did you want the person recording to do? Go beyond a police cordon and film a burnt up dead body??

[letsdisagree]

The news studio band are really coming on. Bit too much marimba for me though.

[Bestofthebest]

Evektor SportStar built in 2022, appears to have been in the air for less than 10 minutes. It had circled twice the village of Old Whittington, two miles north of Chesterfield, before coming down on Sheepbridge Lane.

[megapixies]

Crashed landed… so survivors? No survivors = crashed? What are we looking at? Speed of publishing a priority over content?

[EVLitterPicker]

Plane appear to be the correct way up, but the fence behind is not damaged at all... Did it fall flat out of the sky?

[carlgoring]

Another one getting very frequent these days dont you think...

[eyesodd]

That's two within a week in tbe UK.

[Farweasel]

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If I can figure out how to block the channel I will

[BrianWillcox-qphr]

If humankind were meant to fly we'd have wings & eat insects.

[nidgem]

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[lornaginetteharrison]

Well that was totally pointless. Blocking this useless channel.

[Paul-pfrm]

Well that was a waste of everybody's time....useless! 🤬

[tonygoodlad]

Hope it isn't another kharmer job ? God help them ? Xxx